Gossip is the new pornography

I had just gotten my answers back from an e-mail interview I did with Emily Haines, of Metric (who have an excellent new album out now called Fantasies). I love how the answers to these two (unrelated) questions gel with one another.

Last time I saw your band play was in Seattle in 2007 and if my memory serves me, I thought you said something onstage about putting out your next record on your own timeline. Was that one of the reasons you are self-releasing this record? Other reasons?

We spent a lot of time setting up a new infrastructure for the band which spares us the endless wrangling with record labels that are not forward thinking. We are really excited to finally be in a position where we can do things on our own terms. For as long as I can remember people have been telling us that what we want to accomplish can’t be done. We disagree!

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Aside from putting out Fantasies, what are the plans for Metric in 2009? Beyond?

Space travel!